Lyrics
The generator hum from Agodi prison cuts out clean,
For just one second, I hear the highlife from the street scene.
Another foundation poured where the old post office had been,
They're drawing over the blueprint in permanent green.
[Chorus]
This love is a new beam in an old ceiling.
This city is a different body with the same feeling.
Holy water, holy dust.
[Verse 2]
I'm counting the steel rods on the Eleyele bypass,
Counting the ghosts who thought the old promises would last.
The humid night sticks to my skin like wet plaster on glass,
Building a version of yourself you have to move past.
[Chorus]
This love is a new beam in an old ceiling.
This city is a different body with the same feeling.
Holy water, holy dust.
[Bridge]
My youngest sister asked, "Do you even remember his face?"
And for a moment, the whole damn structure felt out of place.
[Outro]
Is it still the same house? Is it still the same house?
About Fela Kuyo
Fela Kuyo was raised in the shadow of the University of Ibadan, the eldest of six siblings who became a parent at fourteen when his activist father was silenced. His only inheritance was his father's political library and an old saxophone, which he taught himself to play by listening to Fela Kuti records. Today, he still lives in his hometown, his sprawling Afrobeat epics telling the story of a…
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